ISBN: 9781851826698

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923-64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan's intellectual journey from his earl… Mehr…

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923-64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan's intellectual journey from his early imitations of Republican verse and song to his formulation of a literature that could articulate and convey a thoroughly postcolonial, critical nationalism. Brendan Behan moves beyond the popular image of Behan as a stage-Irish rebel and presents his writings as complex representations of the construction and negotiation of identity and culture. Behan's plays, stories, autobiographies, poems and newspaper columns, composed in mid-century Ireland, explore the bonds of language, class, religion, colonialism and nationalism. This book argues that Behan's work expands the anti-colonial project of Irish revival writings to articulate a revisionist critique of post-independence Irish nationalism. Behan's writings engage in inter-textual dialogue with the writings of Hyde, Synge, O'Casey, Wilde, Yeats, and Media ><

2002, ISBN: 9781851826698

Four Courts Press Ltd, Gebundene Ausgabe, 188 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-03-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.95 kg, Allgemein, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Kat… Mehr…

Four Courts Press Ltd, Gebundene Ausgabe, 188 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-03-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.95 kg, Allgemein, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Kategorien, Bücher, Irland, Four Courts Press Ltd, 2002<